Method of carding wire belt-hooks and the resulting package.



1. K. DIAMOND. METHOD OF GARDING WIRE BELT HOOKS AND THE RESULTING PACKAGE. APPLICATION HLED DEC-7.19M.

1,183,173. A Patented May16, 1916.

JAMES K. DIAMOND, OF GRAND RAPIDS, IflICI-IIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO CLIPPER BELT LACER COMPANY, OF KENT COUNTY, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ll atented lhlay in, 1916.

Application filed December '7, 1914. Serial No. 875,921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES K. DIAMOND, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Carding Wire Belt-Hooks and the Resulting Package; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a card construction adapted to hold belt fasteners and a method of securing the fasteners to said card.

As shown in my former Patent No. 1,066,801, granted July 8, 1913, belt fasteners may be secured to a card consisting of a base having upwardly bent sections integral therewith, one of said sections having an outturned portion, the ends of the fasteners being inserted through holes in the said upturned sections and the body of the fasteners being received in slots inthe outturned portion noted. Heretofore it has been customary in attaching these fasteners to the card to form it from a flat sheet of material forming the base, having an upturned portion at each side, and outwardly turned spacing members on. one of the upturned portions and attaching the belt fasteners by automatic machinery, the said spacing members being pressed outward be tween the fasteners by the machine. In order to accomplish this it has been necessary to especially prepare one edge of the card to give it proper qualities so that it may be so pressed outward between the fasteners by the machine and leave the outturned portions in proper position between the fasteners. This has been a source of considerable expense and trouble and it is the object of the present invention to avoid this especially prepared edge of the card, using a simple and economical construction in place thereof which requires no special preparation of the paper or other material but merely a special construction as disclosed in the accompanying drawing, in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view of a card adapted to be used to carry the belt fastener. Fig. 2 is an end elevation showing the card with the fasteners attached; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a similar construction.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

The card which is to be used for holding the fasteners is a thin flat strip 1 of suitable material, such as card-board, which is provided with spaced apart rows of circular openings 2, in the present instance shown located a distance from each of the edges of the strip, the card being further provided closely adjacent one edge thereof, with a plurality of elongated openings 3 equal in number to the number of circular openings at one edge of the card. These elongated openings 25 extend inwardly from the edge of the card at substantially right angles thereto. As the belt fasteners are attached, the card is bent substantially along the lines a, b and 0, indicated in Fig. l to form a base 4 with upstanding portions 5 and 6 bent inwardly toward each other and a portion 7 being located at substantially right angles to the portions 6. In applying the fasteners, indicated by numeral 8, to this card the pointed ends thereof are first inserted through the circular openings 2 and the portion 7 is brought against the inner side of the legs with the slots 3 opposite the respective legs, the portion 7 being then bent outward which forces the legs through the thin part 9 of the material left between the ends of the slots and the outer edge of the card. This is accomplished very easily without distortion or crumpling of the portion 7, the body of the fastener being then received in each opening 3, the material therebetween thus forming l shaped tongues spacing and holding the fasteners in substantially rigid position with respect to the card with said. tongues eifectu ally retained between the fasteners by the T-shaped ends thereof.

By means of this construction a very simple and economical card may be used for carding the belt' fasteners where before one requiring a more expensive process of manufacture was needed.

I claim 1. The method of carding wire belt fasteners which consists in providing a flat strip having rows of substantially circular openings arranged parallel to the strip edges at a distance from each edge of the strip and a plurality of parallel elongated inwardly extending openings arranged closely adjacent one edge of the strip but inside of said edge whereby the outer ends of the openings are closed, bending said.

strip to form a base with upstanding portions extending toward each other, said upstanding portions having the said circular openings, and one portion containing the said elongated openings, mounting the fasteners therein with the ends of the fasteners inserted in the circular openings, and then forcing the last named portion outwardly between the legs of the staples, whereby the body of each fastener is forced through the edge of said portion into an elongated open- 111g.

2. The herein described package of belt fasteners comprised of a card having a body portion and sides turned at an angle therefrom, a plurality of belt fasteners secured to said card by passing the ends of the fasteners through the sides, and an extension to one side having a plurality of T-shaped tongues bent at an angle from the side, said tongues passing between the fasteners.

8. The herein described package of belt fasteners comprised of a card having a body portion and sides turned at an angle therefrom, a plurality of belt fasteners secured to said card by passing the ends of the fasteners through the sides, and an extension to one of the sides bent at an angle therefrom and having a plurality of tongues provided with widened outer ends, said tongues positioned between the fasteners.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES K. DIAMOND.

WVi'tnesses:

FRANK E. LIVERANOE, J12, H. H. YARRINGTON.

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